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"scope_statement": "This model owns tuber as a kind of enlarged plant storage organ, provisionally including stem tubers and root tubers while recording their anatomical differences; the intended registry sense remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Anatomical identification as a stem tuber or root tuber", "Connection to the parent plant and associated buds or crown tissue", "Storage tissue, external covering, shape and dimensions", "Maturity, dormancy, sprouting and tissue condition", "Suitability of an individual tuber for storage, propagation or an identified use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The whole plant, its species description and cultivation system", "Bulbs, corms, rhizomes and ordinary roots that do not qualify as tubers", "The fungal genus Tuber and truffle fruiting bodies", "Processed tuber foods, extracted starch and prepared medicines", "Farm operations, storage facilities and commercial lots as managed entities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the specimen is a localised enlargement of plant tissue serving a storage role, rather than identifying it from a rounded shape alone.", "Use nodes, internodes, leaf scars and bud arrangement to investigate stem origin; root tubers require evidence of root origin rather than the same stem markers.", "Distinguish a tuber from a bulb by whether the storage body consists of enlarged organ tissue rather than predominantly fleshy scale leaves.", "Distinguish a stem tuber from a corm or rhizome using its attachment, growth pattern and location of swelling; underground position alone does not settle the boundary.", "Treat regenerative capacity as anatomy dependent: potato-like eyes are not a universal feature of all organs called tubers." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Botanical identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked plant taxon and cultivar when known; identification confidence", "why_it_matters": "Anatomical interpretation, storage requirements and permissible uses depend on plant identity." }, { "name": "Organ origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Stem tuber; root tuber; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates structures with different diagnostic markers and propagation requirements." }, { "name": "Parent attachment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed connection to stolon, rhizome, stem base, crown or root system; detached with attachment scar; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Attachment evidence helps determine organ origin and whether necessary regenerative tissue is retained." }, { "name": "Dimensions and fresh mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and two perpendicular widths in mm; fresh mass in g; observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of growth, shrinkage and suitability for a specified handling process." }, { "name": "Regenerative structures", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Bud or eye count and distribution; crown tissue present, absent or unknown; viability untested or assessed", "why_it_matters": "Storage tissue alone does not establish that a detached organ or fragment can produce a new plant." }, { "name": "Developmental state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Enlarging; mature; dormant; sprouting; depleted; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about harvest, storage and propagation without equating lack of sprouting with death." }, { "name": "Surface and tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Covering intact or damaged; cuts, bruises, shrivelling, softening, lesions and discoloration recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Identifies damage and deterioration requiring further assessment or changes in handling." }, { "name": "Storage exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C; relative humidity in %; duration in days; light exposure as recorded conditions", "why_it_matters": "Makes condition changes interpretable against the specimen's actual storage history." }, { "name": "Use eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assessed separately for propagation, food, feed or processing: supported, restricted, unsuitable or unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents tuber identity or healthy appearance from being treated as evidence of edibility or planting suitability." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate organ using its anatomy and attachment evidence, retaining an unresolved classification where necessary.", "Locate buds, eyes and crown tissue before assessing propagation potential.", "Measure and monitor enlargement, sprouting, shrinkage and deterioration.", "Select storage and handling conditions from guidance applicable to the identified plant and intended use.", "Assess whether an intact tuber or proposed division retains the structures required for regeneration.", "Flag specimens needing identification, disease assessment or use-specific safety evidence before allocation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "organ-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Organ identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish the botanical sense and anatomical basis of tuber identification.", "rationale": "The word tuber covers differing plant structures and also occurs in fungal nomenclature.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-sense", "name": "Botanical sense", "description": "Connect the candidate storage organ to a plant identity and an explicit use of the term tuber.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Identity evidence", "description": "Record evidence supporting the plant-organ interpretation and the limits of taxonomic identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plant taxon produced this organ, and what observation or record supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the registry intend the botanical storage organ, and does its definition include both stem and root tubers?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-origin", "name": "Anatomical origin", "description": "Resolve stem or root origin and distinguish neighbouring storage-organ kinds.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-structures", "name": "Diagnostic structures", "description": "Record attachment, nodes, buds and internal organisation as evidence rather than relying on common names.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attachment features or anatomical markers establish stem origin, root origin or an unresolved origin?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-structures-q01" }, { "text": "What observed feature distinguishes this organ from a bulb, corm, rhizome or non-tuberous storage root?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-structures-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-body-and-development", "name": "Storage body and development", "description": "Describe the enlarged storage tissue and its stage in the plant's growth cycle.", "rationale": "Tuber size and appearance acquire meaning through storage function, maturity and subsequent reserve use.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-tissue", "name": "Storage tissue", "description": "Characterise the storage body without assuming that all tubers have the same reserve composition.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-size-and-reserves", "name": "Body size and reserves", "description": "Record dimensions, mass and any supported assessment of storage reserves.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the organ's length, perpendicular widths and fresh mass at the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "body-size-and-reserves-q01" }, { "text": "Which reserve compounds are established for this plant's tubers, and is the evidence specimen-specific or taxon-level?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "body-size-and-reserves-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "developmental-transition", "name": "Developmental transition", "description": "Track enlargement, maturation and mobilisation of stored tissue.", "findings": [ { "id": "maturity-and-depletion", "name": "Maturity and depletion", "description": "Separate an actively enlarging tuber from a mature organ or one being depleted during regrowth.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations support the assigned stage of enlargement, maturity or reserve depletion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maturity-and-depletion-q01" }, { "text": "How does attachment to an actively growing or senescing parent plant affect interpretation of this tuber's stage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "maturity-and-depletion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dormancy-and-regeneration", "name": "Dormancy and regeneration", "description": "Assess dormant state, sprouting and the anatomical requirements for producing a new plant.", "rationale": "A tuber's value as a propagule depends on viable regenerative structures and their physiological state.", "layers": [ { "id": "regenerative-anatomy", "name": "Regenerative anatomy", "description": "Locate the structures that could produce shoots and sustain initial regrowth.", "findings": [ { "id": "buds-eyes-and-crown", "name": "Buds, eyes and crown", "description": "Distinguish visible storage tissue from the structures needed for regeneration in the identified plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are viable or potentially viable buds, eyes or crown-associated growing points located?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "buds-eyes-and-crown-q01" }, { "text": "Would detachment or the proposed division retain the regenerative structures required for this plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "buds-eyes-and-crown-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dormancy-and-sprout-state", "name": "Dormancy and sprout state", "description": "Interpret lack of growth and emerging shoots using observation history and plant-specific evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "regrowth-readiness", "name": "Regrowth readiness", "description": "Record evidence for dormancy, environmental suppression, active sprouting or loss of viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes dormancy from unsuitable growth conditions or loss of viability in this specimen?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regrowth-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "How many sprouts are present, how long are they, and how has their condition changed over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regrowth-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "What plant-specific evidence supports planting, retaining in storage or applying a dormancy-management treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "regrowth-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "postharvest-condition-and-use", "name": "Postharvest condition and use", "description": "Connect damage, storage exposure and intended use to decisions about an individual tuber.", "rationale": "A detached tuber remains biologically active, and suitability for planting or consumption cannot be inferred from its name.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-storage-response", "name": "Damage and storage response", "description": "Assess the covering and storage tissue against harvest and storage history.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-trajectory", "name": "Condition trajectory", "description": "Record wounds, water loss and deterioration while keeping visible symptoms separate from their suspected causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cuts, bruises, lesions, soft areas or shrivelling, and are they spreading or stabilising?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "What harvest damage and temperature, humidity and light exposures preceded the observed changes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-trajectory-q02" }, { "text": "Which handling or storage adjustment is supported for this plant, condition and intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-trajectory-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-specific-eligibility", "name": "Use-specific eligibility", "description": "Evaluate propagation, food, feed and processing uses independently.", "findings": [ { "id": "allocation-evidence", "name": "Allocation evidence", "description": "Require evidence appropriate to the proposed use, including identity, condition and treatment history.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes suitability for the proposed use, including any required preparation and restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "allocation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Has the tuber received treatments or been assigned planting-stock status that changes its eligibility for food or feed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "allocation-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Which unresolved identification, symptom or treatment-history issue requires withholding allocation?", "kind": "action", "id": "allocation-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry provides no sense; this answer assumes the botanical organ rather than the fungal genus.", "Check whether the intended terminology restricts tuber to stem-derived organs or includes tuberous roots.", "Dimensions, composition, storage conditions and processing requirements depend strongly on species and cultivar; no universal typical ranges are supplied." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of tuber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Stem tubers, such as potato", "Root tubers, such as sweet potato", "Aerial tubers, produced by some yams" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of tuber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Human food, especially as a source of carbohydrate", "Vegetative propagation of crops and ornamental plants", "Animal feed", "Production of starch", "Seasonal reserve storage and persistence in perennial plants" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of tuber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fungal and bacterial rots can destroy tubers during growth or storage.", "Vegetative propagation can transmit pathogens from infected planting material.", "Mechanical injury can increase water loss and susceptibility to decay.", "Sprouting and depletion of stored reserves can reduce storage quality.", "Some edible tuber crops contain defensive compounds requiring appropriate preparation; potato glycoalkaloids are a particular concern in green or sprouted potatoes." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of tuber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Agricultural and culinary usage often groups tubers with other underground storage organs under 'roots and tubers', even when their botanical origins differ." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of tuber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "tuberous root", "difference": "A tuberous root originates from root tissue and lacks the nodes and internodes characteristic of a stem tuber; broader usage includes it among tubers." }, { "name": "rhizome", "difference": "A rhizome is a typically horizontal stem with successive nodes and internodes; a tuber is a localized storage enlargement." }, { "name": "bulb", "difference": "A 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"Which botanical references should govern difficult boundaries among tubers, tuberous roots, corms, rhizomes and swollen stem bases?", "Which taxon-specific evidence is needed to assess regenerative viability, dormancy and appropriate storage conditions?", "Which intended uses require additional evidence about toxicity, preparation, disease status or prior chemical treatments?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 25 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "chufa de Valencia", "tuberous stem" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one tuber from another, and a tuber from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a tuber sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a tuber from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a tuber is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a tuber is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a tuber is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a tuber is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a tuber is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a tuber is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a tuber passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a tuber between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a tuber, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tuber is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What tuber is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does tuber perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise tuber, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How tuber is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does tuber have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does tuber need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about tuber is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about tuber hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern tuber, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a tuber came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a tuber and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a tuber is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tuber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a tuber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a tuber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }